Hat-hanger.



'No. 831,985. PATENTED SEPT 25, 1906. G. F. PETTINGELL. HAT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED HAY23. 1905.

W[TNESSE 'INVENTOR 6% WI a mime I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

CHARLES F. PETTINGELL, OF AMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS,ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TOWILBUR H. TAYLOR, OF AMESBURY, MASSAOHUSETTSLj HAT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. PETTIN- GELL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Amesbury, in the county of Essex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement inHat-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a hat-hanger designed especially for use withstiff hats, such as derbies and silk hats; but the device of course isnot limited to use with any particu lar form of hat.

The object of the invention is a hanger which will provide a suitablesupport for the crown of the hat and also provide a guard overhangingthe support and adapted to engage the hat-brim and prevent the hat fromslipping from the support.

The invention consists of a metal hanger adapted to be secured to a wallor other suitable place and having a practical horizontal butslightly-curved supporting frame or platform and a standard to the rearof said platform from which depends a guard adapted to rest against theouter face of the hat-brim.

The device also consists of the novel features of construction hereindescribed, pointed out in the claims, and shown in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the hanger. Fig. 2is a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is an outlinedperspective view showing the hanger in combination with a hook forsupporting a coat.

In illustrating my invention I have shown the same formed of one pieceof wire but it will be obvious that the device may be formed of anysuitable metal and may also be farmed by other means than twisting itinto p ace.

In the drawings, A represents a straight shank having a taperingthreaded end A, adapted to be screwed into a suitable support. The shankA terminates or carries at its front end a frame or platform B, which ispreferably rectangular in outline and rests at substantially a rightangle to the shank A. This platform is slightly curved to correspond tothe curvature of the front of a hat. Rising from the shank A at a pointto the rear of the platform B is a standard 0, which is curved or bentupon itself, as shown at C, and terminates in a depending guard G whichI have shown as being ring-like in form; but it will be understood thatthe guard may be angular in shape.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a form in which a standard D is connected to theshank A intermediate the ends of the standard extending both above andbelow it. The part of the standard D extending above the shank Aterminates in a guard D and is similar to the standard 0 and the guard CThat portion of the standard D depending downward below the shank A hasits lower end portion curved upwardly, as shown at D and thereby forms ahook upon which a coat may be hung. In the form shown by me thehathanger is composed of one piece of wire, the shank A being bent atits outer end to form the rectangular frame or platform B, and the wireis then carried back parallel to the shank A and twisted around the sameand carried upwardly to form the standard O, being then bent over toform the depending portion C and then bent in the circular form, asshown at 0 but it will be obvious that practically the same form of thearticle can be made in brass or cast-iron castings, and I do not,therefore, desire to be limited to a wire construction.

In use the brim of the hat is slipped over the platform B and under theguard C the hat being held in substantially a hoirzontal position. Thehat is then permitted to fall into a vertical position and the crown ofthe hat will rest upon the curved platform B, while the brim willproject upwardly between the standard C and the guard C, which willprevent the hat from slipping from the platform B.

It will be noted from Figs. 3 and 4 especially that the guard lies in avertical plane to the rear of the platform B.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A device of the kind described comprising a platform, said platformconsisting of an open rectangular wire frame, the side members of thesaid frame being curved, an integral shank portion carried by one sideof said frame and extending rearwardly therethe portion of the shankbetween the standfilomi ran inttegral portion of the samel side of ardand the said'frame. t e ame ein bent arallel to t 1e said shank toaipoint interme iiate the ends of the CHARLES E PETTINGELL' 5 shank andthen coiled about the shank to Witnesses:

form a standard, and a depending guard car- JACOB T. CHOATE, ried by thesaid standard and overhanging WILBUR H. TAYLOR.

